Bill DeMain

"We didn’t really care about scenes: For us, it always came down to the song” - Jellyfish's Roger Manning Jr

After guitarist Duane Allman’s tragic death, the Allman Brothers Band pulled together and recorded the landmark double album Eat A Peach

Originally a b-side, Joni Mitchell's generational classic Woodstock found its biggest audience with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida started life as a 90-second country ballad, but turned into a psychedelic and cultural landmark

The Doobie Brothers' Long Train Runnin' was an instrumental showcase for "half-hour solos" before their producer saw its hit potential

Jeff Beck's first single was his biggest hit, but he would go on to describe it as "a pink toilet seat" hanging around his neck

All those shimmering pop masterpieces about dysfunctional relationships can be traced back to a single Fleetwood Mac song

Featuring one of the greatest wah solos of all time, this is the story of the Chicago classic 25 or 6 to 4

The story of Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "I can’t say those words out loud with a smile on my face"

Santana made a hit of Peter Green's Black Magic Woman, but that's only a small part of the song's journey

A billion streams makes Toto's Africa one of the most beloved songs in rock history, even if its writer doesn't know why

Jellyfish founder member and keyboard player Roger Manning Jr picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the song that makes him cry

Over a six-decade career, Peter Frampton has lived the rock life to its fullest, playing many parts – prodigy, teen idol, guitar hero, global superstar, forgotten man, comeback kid, survivor

One critic described Waterloo Sunset as "the most beautiful song in the English language", and for some it's the ultimate London anthem

Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith on digging jazz, doing things on his own terms, and Bob Dylan confusing him with Taylor Swift

Purple Rain represented Prince’s breakthrough moment, but it was the tour that followed – and one show in particular – that turned him into a living legend

Ric Ocasek's 1978 hit My Best Friend's Girl was the song that consolidated The Cars' sound and style

Rocky Mountain Way came to Joe Walsh as he mowed his lawn, much to the detriment of his furious neighbour's rose bushes

David Bowie received glowing reviews for his performance as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, but the run ended with Bowie distraught and escaping into seclusion

It's 1979, it's Halloween, ands Ace Frehley has had a drink

In 1964, faced with playing segregated audiences in the southern United States, The Beatles took a stand

Just one more thing... The story of the time Johnny Cash played country-gospel singing murderer Tommy Brown on Columbo, taking the Man In Black places he'd never been before.

With the dumbest of dumb riffs and lyrics that launched an FBI investigation, The Kingsmen's version of Louie Louie has a history unlike any other song

What happened when John Lennon showed up at WNEW-FM and broadcast for two hours – a show that's still talked about nearly 50 years later